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Malayalam VOICES
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When church shares a saffron stage
April 23, 2016, 3:37 PM IST
Along with Boby Kurian The Indian Farmers’ Movement and NDA join hands in Kothamangalam It is a small step forward and may not impact the results of this assembly polls in a big way. But…
April 23, 2016, 3:37 PM IST
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‘Christian community got stunted because of Kerala Congress’: PC George
April 23, 2016, 3:31 PM IST
In the past seven elections, P C George contested in Poonjar as a Kerala Congress candidate.This time he is an independent and, if anything, it has only encouraged his candour. What is the reason for…
April 23, 2016, 3:31 PM IST
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‘Regionalism is not such a bad thing’: KM Mani
April 23, 2016, 3:27 PM IST
Along with Boby Kurian Kerala Congress (M) chairman and former finance minister K M Mani provides perspective to charges of provincialism. Do you think Kerala Congress needs to pursue a different development agenda, especially with…
April 23, 2016, 3:27 PM IST
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Cross purpose
April 23, 2016, 3:17 PM IST
Along with Boby Kurian It was once the proud and politically expedient voice of a community that turned the wilderness into proverbial orchards, but the Kerala Congress today has lost much of its traction in…
April 23, 2016, 3:17 PM IST
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I of the storm
April 16, 2016, 3:54 PM IST
For this Thrissur Pooram regular, his very self is subsumed in the festivity Like on an undulating sea, thousands float on the pooram cocktail of sights and sounds. Fish one out from this milling crowd and…
April 16, 2016, 3:54 PM IST
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Edward said would love this
April 16, 2016, 3:04 AM IST
Received wisdom is that almost every scholarly work by a European on India in the colonial era reflected the ‘white man’s burden’. A new two-volume anthology on Hermann Gundert’s Malayalam-English dictionary shows that there were…
April 16, 2016, 3:04 AM IST
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Islam in the West, Muslims in the East
April 16, 2016, 1:47 AM IST
Who started the ‘renaissance’ in Malabar – a lot rides on it The encounter between traditional societies and modernity has been occasion for heated debates among academics and activists all over the world. The belief…
April 16, 2016, 1:47 AM IST
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The good, bad, ugly
April 9, 2016, 3:25 PM IST
Profanity runs the whole gamut from sexist slurs and hate speech to relatively harmless steam letting. The college magazine Viswavikhyatha Theri has kicked off a debate on what is strict no-no and what should…
April 9, 2016, 3:25 PM IST
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An epic at your fingertips
April 2, 2016, 9:02 AM IST
Tales From Mahabharata, an app created by a Kerala-based startup, will combine state of-the-art animation with interactive games. When you tap the icon of Arjuna on your phone, one of the most familiar voices in…
April 2, 2016, 9:02 AM IST
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Wrong signal
April 2, 2016, 8:37 AM IST
The Metro is seen as a symbol of progress, but a scholar warns of cultural costs Malayan and Digen have never met but both had a role to play in connecting disparate populations in Kerala…
April 2, 2016, 8:37 AM IST
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Dalits as daivamakkal
April 2, 2016, 8:31 AM IST
Was Gandhiji being patronising towards the subalterns when he called them Harijans? Can an upper caste class author truly evoke Dalit suffering and identity? A 1982 novel almost convinces us about the powers of empathy….
April 2, 2016, 8:31 AM IST
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Autumn of the patriarch
March 19, 2016, 12:55 PM IST
Looking back on a career spanning almost six decades, Kavalam Narayana Panicker opens up on his art -its unique mix of the earthy and the ethereal. Kavalam Narayana Panicker has still not lost his tender,…
March 19, 2016, 12:55 PM IST
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Holy be thy name
March 19, 2016, 12:48 PM IST
K P Ramanunni recognises the depth of reverence Muslims have for the Prophet Malayalam writer K P Ramanunni had no apprehensions when he decided to write Daivathinte Pusthakam, the novel in which Prophet Muhammad appears…
March 19, 2016, 12:48 PM IST
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When Surpanakha beevi almost seduced Rama
March 19, 2016, 12:41 PM IST
Azeez Tharuvana unearths a Wayanadan version of the epic very different from that of Valmiki While documenting the oral traditions of Ramayana in Wayanad, Azeez Tharuvana, an assistant professor at Farook College in Kozhikode, asked…
March 19, 2016, 12:41 PM IST
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Losing the plot
March 12, 2016, 3:40 PM IST
Two award-winning movies break the mould by casting amateurs and, in one case, even dispensing with a script. Karthiyayani, an old woman from a remote village called Perunthappa in Kannur plays a key character in…
March 12, 2016, 3:40 PM IST
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Picture the world
March 12, 2016, 3:35 PM IST
A documentary on Attoor Ravivarma tries to evoke the beauty of a poet’s inner life while remaining iconoclastic enough. A film that documents a poet’s life is a rare act in a Bollywood-ized India. It…
March 12, 2016, 3:35 PM IST
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Children, clowns & charlatans
March 12, 2016, 3:09 PM IST
G Aravindan was as playful as he was formally experimental; on the occasion of his 25th death anniversary, a reappraisal of some of his lesser known motifs. A few weeks after the movie Kanchana Sita…
March 12, 2016, 3:09 PM IST
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Let there be many more JNUs
February 27, 2016, 1:08 PM IST
Reading JNU as a ‘spectacle’ in the light of the recent developments and the subsequent manipulation of ‘national conscience’ and ‘common sense’ by the fascist parivar in power will be a great disservice to the…
February 27, 2016, 1:08 PM IST
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Leftists are the new Savarnas
February 27, 2016, 1:02 PM IST
Often media (also screen play writers) provides a romantic notion of JNU, the left bastion where students and faculty eat and drink politics. However, what is not well known is the existence of many inner…
February 27, 2016, 1:02 PM IST
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Kanhaiya too guards a vital ‘border’
February 27, 2016, 12:56 PM IST
Our idea of Kashmir and any other place in India must not come from Mohanlal Major Ravi films. Political and social pressures force people in Kashmir and North East to make certain decisions. There is…
February 27, 2016, 12:56 PM IST
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